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Education After Escaping Abduction

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Much has been written about the Chibok girls, the 276 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok in northern Nigeria who were kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014. … However, there’s another group of those Chibok girls we’ve heard less about—those who managed to escape the night of the abduction.

Mary, Glory, and Ladi are three such girls. Even

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